What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.